UNKNOWN FLYING @ 39,000", GA, USA
MY WIFE AND I WERE FLYING ON SOUTHWEST FLIGHT 686 FROM ST. LOUIS TO FORT LAUDERDALE ON 1/16/14 AFTER CRUISING FOR APPX.1 HOUR AT 39,00
Report quality: Moderate49/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-16
- Where
- UNKNOWN FLYING @ 39,000", GA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 SECONDS
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-unknown-flying-39-000-quot-ga-2014-4636ed
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from UNKNOWN FLYING @ 39,000", GA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Georgia logged 225 sightings in 2014.
- Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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